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Wooden Boy Vinyl Record

$20.49
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Wooden Boy Vinyl Record

$20.49
Merchbar Gold Supplier
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It's soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares! Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one's telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It's dark here, so you can do your own thing. Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel - a ten-piece band from Melbourne, Australia - all born in the 90's and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year's rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970's, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic odyssey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog - if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA's score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener's imagination. Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel's taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby, Wooden Boy.

Track List
  1. Who is Walt Druce?
  2. Wooden Boy, Pt. 1
  3. Jorge Buccio
  4. Wooden Boy, Pt. 3
  5. Laika
  6. How Did This Happen
  7. X-Ray Bear
  8. Bison Slide
  9. Did Everyone Meet Siadon That Night?
  10. Black Flag and Lady Bountiful


Protection
Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.

Packaging
All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.
Released2013
StylesFunk, Afrobeat, Rare Groove
Categories
1Who Is Walt Druce?
2Wooden Boy (Part 1)
3Jorge Buccio
4Wooden Boy (Part 3)
5Laika
6How Did This Happen
7X-Ray Bear
8Bison Slide
9Did Everyone Meet Siadon That Night?
10Black Flag And Lady Bountiful

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